Huron City Commission meeting
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HURON — A variance to allow the Beadle County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League to reconfigure the existing rifle range at 715 Lawnridge Ave. N.E. in order to, in part, make it safer has been approved by the City Commission.
League president Lanny Thomas said the organization has been asked by the 4-H shooting sports club to make use of the range. There are about 90 to 100 young people in the club.
The proposal is to remove the south berm of the range, add a north-south berm inside the range to divide the range into 200-yard and 100-yard ranges. A berm will be added for the 100-yard range and a firing line shelter will be constructed on the south end of the range.
Reconfiguring it will make it safer for shooters and enable easier supervision of those using the range. Adding a shelter over the firing line will help with noise control.
The existing rifle range is grandfathered in, where code doesn’t allow a rifle range as a permitted use in an area zoned one-family residential in the city and one-family residential in the joint jurisdictional area.
While the clubhouse is in city limits, the shooting range is not.
Meanwhile, commissioners approved an engineering department recommendation that will reduce the paving contract for 24th Street Southeast in the Southtown development by $12,546.